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KMID : 1148920110450030011
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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
2011 Volume.45 No. 3 p.11 ~ p.11
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SPECT/CT in the Diagnosis of Skull Base Osteomyelitis
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Damle Nishikant Avinash
Kumar Rakesh
Kumar Praveen
Jaganathan Sriram
Patnecha Manish
Bal Chandrasekhar
Bandopadhyaya Gurupad
Malhotra Arun
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Abstract
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Skull base osteomyelitis is a potentially fatal disease. We demonstrate here the utility of SPECT/CT in diagnosing this entity, which was not obvious on a planar bone scan. A 99mTc MDP bone scan with SPECT/CT was carried out on a patient with clinically suspected skull base osteomyelitis. Findings were correlated with contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) and MRI. Planar images were equivocal, but SPECT/CT showed intense uptake in the body of sphenoid and petrous temporal bone as well as the atlas corresponding to irregular bone destruction on CT and MRI. These findings indicate that SPECT/CT may have an additional role beyond planar imaging in the detection of skull base osteomyelitis.
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KEYWORD
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Skull base osteomyelitis, Bone scan, SPECT/CT
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